Gabri Mate wrote: > Dear List, > > i would like to install OpenBSD 4.3 on an old Pentium MMX machine. The > BIOS can boot off from a cd, but it simply refuses to boot the OBSD > installation media. It checks the cd, waits a few seconds, then just > goes on. > > Any suggestions? > -- > Gabri Mate > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
In addition to the other suggestions (which are correct other than the "known problem" one..that WAS 4.2, not 4.3, and installing a third party boot manager is not ever my recommendation), it is VERY likely that any machine that old has a bad CDROM or a buggy BIOS. If the machine has been running much of the time since it was made, the CDROM has filtered a lot of dust, and the CD Booting of those days was very commonly buggy or limited Either use cdemu43.iso (which sometimes shows OTHER bugs in BIOSs, because it emulates a 2.88M floppy, which some BIOSs don't work, though I've never seen a machine which could boot from CD but couldn't boot from one of the two CDROM images OpenBSD provided...and yes, I tested a LOT of machines when we changed the CDROM boot loader) or a boot floppy, as dirty floppy drives are usually easier/more successfully cleaned. Nick.
